Notes:
- first time i see somebody losing a match despite giving a double-bagel to his opponent !
- more importantly, the quantity of best-of-5 matches in the "good old times" is simply amazing. they should really bring back some best-of-5 finals on the tour (at least for the final of the year-end masters, please !)
- moose, it seems they now corrected the result of the final for the 1974 masters

Geeze! ... already running out of room in the OP (10,000 characters max). I believe the match record links are utilizing a ton of space.

I was forced to pare down the text and may need to split up Active / Inactive players. I'll probably move the Inactive Players down to Post #3 as I think the match record links are essential.

Perhaps a moderator can delete post #2 (which is a waste of space) so the Active and Inactive players hold the first two posts in the thread.

For now, let's continue verifying records of players currently listed and I'll continue linking them until space runs out once again. Let's try and refrain from adding any new players (unless significant).

Geeze! ... already running out of room in the OP (10,000 characters max). I believe the match record links are utilizing a ton of space.

I was forced to pare down the text and may need to split up Active / Inactive players. I'll probably move the Inactive Players down to Post #3 as I think the match record links are essential.

Perhaps a moderator can delete post #2 (which is a waste of space) so the Active and Inactive players hold the first two posts in the thread.

For now, let's continue verifying records of players currently listed and I'll continue linking them until space runs out once again. Let's try and refrain from adding any new players (unless significant).

Any other suggestions?

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I made more space available in the OP so we can continue adding records of players in the active list

Hewitt's and Sampras' records aren't surprising. What does surprise me is Safin's, given his rep as a major headcase. And as a few other posters have noted, Nadal and Djokovic are still in their prime and probably have more 5-setters awaiting in the future when they're no longer the young, feisty players of today. As always these stats need to be put in context.

That said, Borg's record is just otherworldly--not unlike his other records, actually. It'll be interesting to see if Nadal could stay even with him till the end, and if Connors has a comparable record himself.

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Nadal's record is almost as impressive as Borg's. Remember, Borg retired at about the same age Nadal is now. Nadal has if anything done better not to have played as many 5-setters as Borg.

i think this sort of means federer is either on or off. if he even gets taken to 5 he's probably having an off day. whereas nadal can change gears WITHIN a match. He can start off badly or have bad play in certain sets and still come back to win. It's interesting !

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actually, Federer has done that quite a few times as well; the match vs. Baghdatis at the AO, Wimbledon '07 and '08 to a greater extent.

Fed is really bad when the going gets tough.
Borg and Nadal are the best fighters but of course, we already knew that!
Thanks for posting the stats Bud.

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Typically idiotic comment. "Really bad"...LOL, he wins more often than not in 5-setters (59%). You do realize that 50% of guys who get to 5-setters have to lose them, right? He sure wasn't awful in the 5th set at Wimbledon from 2007-2009. Or some of those 5-setters he needed to win the FO '09 and AO '10. Yea, "really bad".